THE following impersonal reports of subscriptions to the Building Fund will be read with interest.

We held a special business meeting on December 2, and voted to subscribe five hundred dollars to the Building Fund of the Mother Church, payable quarterly in 1903. We hope to increase this subscription in 1904.

The Sunday School children of our church will send whatever amount of Sunday School collections they may have on hand January 1, 1903, and thereafter the collection taken on the first Sunday of every month, and will continue doing so until the Mother Church is completed.

A free-will offering was taken at our Wednesday evening meeting on Christmas eve, as a Christmas offering to the Mother Church Building Fund. No collection was taken, only the basket was placed on a table near the door and it was announced that those who wished to contribute to the Building Fund of the Mother Church would have the privilege of doing so at the close of the service, and they could cast their offering into the basket as they left the room. There was sixty-two dollars contributed at this meeting, which we send to-day as our Christmas present to the Mother Church Building Fund. We shall send more later on. But as this sum was given on Christmas eve and for the Building Fund, we thought it should be sent at once.

At the Wednesday evening meeting of our church, held December 3, the question was brought before the meeting relative to the church contributing to the Building Fund of the Mother Church, Boston. Upon motion it was unanimously voted, that, commencing with Sunday, December 7, 1902, and continuing for one year, one half of the first collection taken up in each month, be donated toward the Building Fund of the Mother Church, and the other half toward the support of the Publishing Committee of our state, which was accordingly done and the amount of the first collection forwarded promptly.

We have been thinking that it would be well to contribute to the reports that you are publishing regarding the raising of money for the Mother Church Building Fund. It has been very gratifying to the members of our little society that we were able to make our demonstration and contribute our mite to this fund, and to do it so quickly. At our first Wednesday evening after notice appeared in the Sentinel in regard to the Mother Church Building Fund, the First Reader requested all those who desired to contribute to this fund to pass the amount to our secretary within the next ten days. Our little meetings have only ten or eleven regular attendants, but eight of this number contributed the sum of one hundred and forty dollars, which was forwarded to the Treasurer of the Building Fund on August 15 last.

Shortly after the movement to enlarge the Mother Church was inaugurated, a meeting was held at our church, and the president appointed a committee consisting of seven members to devise ways and means by which our church, as a whole, may send its contribution. A committee meeting was held and it was thought proper to send a circular letter to each member of our church. This was done, and quite a generous contribution was the result, $1,562.15 has already been forwarded to the Treasurer of the Mother Church. A meeting is held the first Wednesday of each month immediately after our usual service. A collection is taken up, and short, helpful talks are given in harmony with the thought that "Giving does not impoverish us in the service of our Maker, neither does withholding enrich."

We know that our home in the Mother Church is dear to all, and what we can do we should do to forward this cause, which can, and does help all mankind, and we rejoice in the opportunity to assist in a work that is broad enough, deep enough, and wide enough to be governed by God.

At the recent business meeting of our church the following plan was unanimously adopted by our members, as the best way for us to work in the building of the Mother Church; viz., that every member take each day the Bible and Science and Health as the basis for individual work in demonstrating our contributions to our beloved Mother Church, that these contributions be handed as fast as received to the clerk of our church, and be sent by him to the Treasurer of the Mother Church, in sums of one hundred dollars or more, and that this plan of action be carried on by our church, until no more contributions shall be required.

We have lately sent on our second contribution of one hundred dollars, also fifteen dollars as a Christmas offering from the children of the Sunday School. We are working in a similar way for the building of our own branch church.

We are very apt to get the idea that there are high positions and that there are low positions, that there is important service and unimportant service; but I believe that God expects the same amount of conscientious work from a person in a low position as from one in a high position.

Booker T. Washington.

The years teach much which the days never know.

Emerson.